Favourite ever "Beat 'em up"

[Mooияakeя™]

I know the genre is all but dead nowadays and I'm still storing enough juice in my balls to completely blow my load if Streets of Rage ever gets made on a "current gen" system. It's all there. 3 previous games, great reaction to them all, and a great name "Streets Of Rage Trilogy" (where all characters from the past are in etc.)

But if you are young enough to remember side scrolling classics like Golden Axe / Final Fight etc. What was your fave??

I honestly believe Tekken Force was the last great hope for this. On Tekken 3 it was fucking amazing.

BTW, mine, of course, is Streets Of Rage.

http://www.raphaeldraccon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/streets.jpg http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu119/Palmerama87/Streets-of-Rage-2-1jpg.png http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/6426/streets3.jpg

[CSL]

Definitely Streets of Rage

[G]

1 of the turtles games probably

[PorkSoda]

Do they make games like Streets of Rage anymore?

[Xero]

1 of the turtles games probably

[Emperor Smeat]

Double Dragon II and TMNT Arcade game.

Never owned or played River City Ransom as a kid but since playing the ROM and Virtual Console version, that's my current favorite of this generation.

[Mooияakeя™]

Do they make games like Streets of Rage anymore?

For connoisseurs...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_%27em_up


...and yes I did mean to post that in big letters to hopefully enlighten your day.... as well as bask in the fact there are more lovers of SOR out there.

[Fignuts]

X-men

[Jura]

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i21/LRAPHQ/SNES/PRM1.png

[Xero]

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i21/LRAPHQ/SNES/PRM1.png

Panel #4.....

....

...Is that a vagina?

[Mooияakeя™]

It looks like it's supposed to be the "Mirror Maniac". It does look like he has a vag and a gushing vag for a chest too.

[.44 Magdalene]

http://www.toy-tma.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Battletoads-Impossible-Speedway.png



JUST KIDDING. Turtles in Time.

[Funky Fly]

Super Double Dragon
Turtles in Time (SNES verrsion)
Final Fight
Final Fight 3
The first 2 levels of godamnfucking Battletoads in Battlemaniacs.
Battletoads & Double Dragon
X-Men arcade game
Simpsons arcade game
Brawl Brothers (SNES)
Alien Vs Predator arcade game

[Sixx]

Cadillacs & Dinosaurs
http://mrabsenta.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/600px-cadillacs_and_dinosaurs4.jpg

The Punisher
http://insomnia.ac/reviews/ac/thepunisher/thepunisher_02.png

[G]

i would also like to give a honorable mention to captain america and the avengers

[Funky Fly]

AMERICA STILL NEEDS YOUR HELP!

[Extreme Angle]

Streets of Rage, but I had just as much fun playing Castle Crashers

[OssMan]

The genre is not dead, it's just in 3D now. God of War, Dante's Inferno etc.

My favorites are probably Turtles in Time and Power Rangers Featuring Ivan Ooze the Movie the Game.

[Funky Fly]

Yeah, 3rd person action games have taken this shit over.

To me beat em ups will always involve walking to the right and kicking the shit out of 13 identical guys tho.

[Nark Order]

The Punisher the Arcade Game was wonderful.

[Nark Order]

Oh, also The Simpsons on Arcade.

[ClockShot]

Both Spider-Man games (Seperation Anxiety and Maximum Carnage), were fun to play. But River City Ransom for the NES holds a special place in my heart.

[Super V]

Oh, also The Simpsons on Arcade.

This. One of the earliest games I remember having double team moves.

[Fignuts]

The President has been kidnapped by ninjas! Are you a bad enough dude to save him?!

[Sixx]

No love for Cadillacs & Dinosaurs?

[Jeritron]

6 Player X-Men
Turtles in Time
The Simpsons Arcade
Punisher
Aliens vs Predator
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs

There's another one that's a western themed beat em up. Forget the name but it's incredible

[Evil Vito]

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i21/LRAPHQ/SNES/PRM1.png

<font color=goldenrod>Yes.

Also made it a point to play The Simpsons arcade game every time I went to an arcade that had it.</font>

[Jeritron]

The sound it made when you deposit a quarter was worth the 25 cents alone

[Super V]

6 Player X-Men
There's another one that's a western themed beat em up. Forget the name but it's incredible

Sunset Riders? Or was that the shoot 'em up game?

[Jeritron]

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[Savio]

Warriors or Double Dragon 2

http://www.futuregamez.net/ps2games/warriors/warriors3.jpg

[Savio]

Oh yeah simpsons was awesome aswell.

[Jeritron]

Sunset Riders? Or was that the shoot 'em up game?

Perhaps it was that. Was that played with a gun? The last I played it was on a friend's MAME cabinet, so I played it with the joystick and buttons and it felt natural that way.

[Hornicane]

I liked the Simpsons arcade game, and all the Battletoads and Golden Axe games. Maximum Carnage was pretty sweet, too.

[Jeritron]

Seperation Anxiety was better just because of co-op with Venom

[Hornicane]

I don't think I actually played that one, unfortunately.

[thedamndest]

But Maximum Carnage had a red cartridge.

[Jeritron]

At what point did the novelty of a colored cartridge wear off? I feel as though it was still awesome as far as the early years of N64. Halfway through 64's run it seemed like they started making tons of colored cartridges and it lost all meaning.
That was part of the short lived post-modernist cartridge movement

[Hornicane]

I loved that Earthworm Jim 3d came in a yellow cartridge for no discernible reason.

[thecc]

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[thedamndest]

Bible Adventures - blue cart, though it was not licensed by Nintendo
NES Zelda and sequel - gold cart
Maximum Carnage - red cart
Killer Instinct - black cart
Donkey Kong 64 - yellow Cart
Zelda on N64 - gold cart

I feel like I am missing some.

[Hornicane]

Pokemon Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, LeafGreen, FireRed, Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald were all in appropriate colored cartridges. Perhaps the best use of the colored cartridge, IMO.

[thedamndest]

I feel like the Game Boy TMNT was green.

[Jeritron]

There were a ton of colored ones on N64. Even minor games had them. Turok 2, Wrestlemania 2000, No Mercy had black cartridges.
Hydro Thunder and a couple other games had blue cartridges. There were a few reds. Spiderman had a red one I believe.
Army Men and others had green.

[thedamndest]

All the Tengen NES games were black but that was just because they had a different case.

[thecc]

All those games made by tengen had those bootleg looking black cartridges.

http://www.nesfiles.com/NES/Gauntlet/Gauntlet_cart.jpg

[thecc]

Damn, beat to the punch

[thedamndest]

I just said that, thecc.

[thedamndest]

I always thought that Gauntlet chick was hot though.

[Hornicane]

A Brief History of Colored Game Cartridges (http://www.gamesradar.com/f/a-brief-history-of-colored-game-cartridges/a-20100527104712641000)

Page 2 (http://www.gamesradar.com/f/a-brief-history-of-colored-game-cartridges/a-20100527104712641000/p-2)

Page 3 (http://www.gamesradar.com/f/a-brief-history-of-colored-game-cartridges/a-20100527104712641000/p-3)

[thedamndest]

Wrong about Turtles.

[Swiss Ultimate]

Dynasty Warriors Franchise.

[Kane Knight]

The TMNT Arcade titles and the X-Men/Simpsons titles were awesome.

Gotta give props to Dynasty Warriors 3 and Saumrai Warriors 2. which both allow an epic amount of ass-kicking.

[Jeritron]

I think Konami pretty much had the market cornered.

I'm not sure who made the Punisher and Aliens vs Predator beat em ups, but the depth in those were incredible. The weapons definitely added a whole new dimension to those.
They seemed to be made by the same company, but I'm not sure.

[Savio]

I would have liked to see a white N64 Cartridge or maybe orange

[OssMan]

Nuclear Strike 64 was in a black cartridge

[The Jayman]

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:OX6ooCP6cz_AGM:http://www.platypuscomix.net/applepalooza/Bad_Dudes_boxfront.jpg

[DaveWadding]

http://www.abcgamesps2.net/loja/images/Fighting_Force_ntsc-%5Bcdcovers_cc%5D-front.jpg

[The Jayman]

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:hyg6GtuDRX8izM:http://powet.tv/powetblog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/sonicblastman.JPG

[Xero]

http://www.abcgamesps2.net/loja/images/Fighting_Force_ntsc-%5Bcdcovers_cc%5D-front.jpg

LOVED this game. Was actually trying to remember the name a few months ago.

[Dorkchop]

http://wiimedia.ign.com/wii/image/article/868/868095/river-city-ransom-virtual-console-20080421071006767.jpg

[Jeritron]

Gauntlet Legends was great. It's not really a beat em up in the traditional 2D sense, but it's the same idea really

[BigDaddyCool]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/X-Men_game_flyer.png (http://tpww.net/wiki/File:X-Men_game_flyer.png)

[Mooияakeя™]

http://www.abcgamesps2.net/loja/images/Fighting_Force_ntsc-%5Bcdcovers_cc%5D-front.jpg

THAT was meant to be the savior and new direction for beat 'em ups.

[Mooияakeя™]

http://www.toggle.com/lv/group/view/kl51719/Streets_of_Rage_Remake.htm

[Rev. Hallowell]

Since TMNT has been mentioned so many times....

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/2/587502_39699_front.jpg

[Johnny McNasty]

Fighting Force was amazing.

Only one I can think of that hasn't been mentioned a jillion times already, is The Bouncer for the Playstation 2.

http://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/987280596-00.jpg

[.44 Magdalene]

If we get into 3D stuff...

http://www.playedpodcast.com/_img/E24/E24.jpg